skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are entire countries that you effectively block out by using Cloudflare on your websites, the very least is the countries embargoed by the US who Cloudflare aren't legally allowed to serve.

Besides that, Cloudflare is pretty aggressive with their captchas/blocks, and there been times where I, a resident of Spain, been blocked out because it's impossible to pass their captcha. I either have to give up and find some alternative service doing the same but without Cloudflare, or I try again another day and suddenly it works.
You probably just jest, either way fibs is not tail recursive [0], since its returning value is a list constructor, and not a call to itself.

[0] : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33923/what-is-tail-recur...
That after 10 years, what was licensed as open becomes even more open? I think only a minority of licensors and licensees would have a problem with that.
A parenthetical remark just to clarify since I was reading quickly.
Wrt the second point in parentheses about stretch factors - upon a second look it is not clear to me exactly what is happening since they say the factors are both fixed for each supernova but then also list the (global?) stretch and color factors in Table 1 (implying that they are varied).
Why even "drop" an explosive? Just fly it straight into the target.
Not sure I follow. The local NFL team's game is on free TV, over the air. People pay or resort to piracy to watch the better game that's four states away. You have to subscribe to see one-off games in England, or subscribe to Netflix to watch the games on Christmas Day.
There may be some screaming into the void, but at least some of it breaks through. I was someone who, for years, bought into the idea that being idiosyncratic and self-expressive and following my passions and self-interested dreams would lead to fulfillment. I was the last person you would have expected to have been receptive to the idea that starting a family could be a means to a meaningful life. Nonetheless, I started to see the cracks in my worldview, and that made me more open to listen, and here we are.

Also there is a biological urge, so it's probably not that much of an uphill battle. Though unfortunately people also contend with biological clocks and realize that they want kids when it's already too late. I feel very bad for those people, and so if you can re-normalize the idea of starting a family, then maybe you can reach those sorts of people while they still have time.
I wonder if it bothers Andrej that I block YouTube ads and also use SponsorBlock?
There are some great, thorny, philosophical and physical arguments to be had with your proposed conclusion, but let’s say we all agree with it.

The bigger, more relevant, and testable challenge is premise #2. The gap between this proposed research tool and “a perfect digital replica of a human brain” (and all functionally relevant inputs and outputs from all other systems and organs in the body) is monstrously large. Given that we don’t understand what mechanism(s) consciousness arises from, a model would have to be 100% perfect in basically all aspects for the conclusion to be true.
Yeah saying someone is only competent when given literally unbounded time is equivalent to saying they are not competent in the real world… where people have a finite amount of time.
> You would not expect your computer to pee on your desk if you were to simulate kidney function

If my computer is connected to actuators that opens a pee valve like a brain is, then I expect.

The main point, in think, is that we can't say precisely what consciousness is. Everything definition on that that I can imagine is something that can be replicated in a computer or that relies on belief, like the existence of a soul...

I hope that we have answers for that before the technology that allow us to do that
Yet another reason why, if I somehow magically found myself on a US jury (given I'm not American, that's not an actual concern), would find it morally impossible to vote to convict anyone.
Dont all first class email providers offer essentially the same level of reliability?
If you manage to avoid scope creep then sure, static YAML has advantages. But that's not usually what happens, is it? The minute you allow users to execute an outside program -- which is strictly necessary for a CI/CD system -- you've already lost. But even if we ignore that, the number of features always grows over time: you add variables so certain elements can be re-used, then you add loops and conditionals because some things need to happen multiple times, and then you add the ability to do math, string manipulation is always useful, and so on. Before you know it you're trying to solve the halting problem because your "declarative markup" is a poorly specified turing-complete language that just happens to use a YAML parser as a tokenizer. This bespoke language will be strictly worse than Python in every way.

My argument is that we should acknowledge that any CI/CD system intended for wide usage will eventually arrive here, and it's better that we go into that intentionally rather than accidentally.
Can confirm—I use enhanced-h264ify on my x230 and it works a charm for watching YouTube without nuking the performance of everything else
James Gosling looked at this and wrote about it at the time. It can be a bit mind bending. Especially with units named after people.

If you’re looking at statistics for current or power the type system might try to convert it to joules even though you wanted to look at average wattage.
International sports are similar. The EPL is spread across Peacock, NBC, USA/Telemundo. There are days I have to resort to watching a Spanish broadcast of a match because whatever strained logic NBC has used on what games to make available where. Assuming this is in an attempt to drive viewers to dying cable channels??? It's extremely frustrating
how relevant is browser benchmarking now that chrome owns most of the space?
>If a person is pretending well enough, it appears genuine

There are multiple readings to most statements.

“I loved the restaurant we went to”

Could be parsed in at least 3 ways without any additional context. Sincere, sarcastic implying the restaurant was bad, indignant implying another restaurant was worse.

Without an alignment goal like “always assume sincerity” which itself can backfire, how can you control what an LLM generates?

There is no universally derivable law saying any particular interpretation is the right one.

This doesn’t even begin to touch on how there may be a signal too weak for humans to perceive, but an LLM could focus on, leading to many other wild and wonderful interpretations mined from the data.
I think the product offerings from CDN companies are the best / most interesting they’ve ever been, compared to the overall IaaS space. “Edge computing” was a meme phrase a few years ago but really there’s no way to beat the speed of light besides putting your stuff closer to users.
HN has manual moderation too -- I'm pretty sure 'dang' (one of the moderators) has indicated they can alter the trajectory of stories; like making them drop faster.
Keep in mind you're asking this question on a site where users regularly defend the Luddites, Ted Kaczynski, and other people who thought they were doing great things for humanity but who actually weren't even doing themselves any favors.
While this obviously and uncontroversially true in an absolute sense (the borrowck isn’t perfect), I think in the overwhelming majority of real-world cases its concerns are either actual problems with your design or simple and well-known limitations of the checker that have pretty straightforward and idiomatic workarounds.

I haven’t seen a lot of programs designs in practice that are sound but fundamentally incompatible with the borrow checker. Every time I’ve thought this I’ve come to realize there was something subtly (or not so subtly) wrong with the design.

I have seen some contrived cases where this is true but they’re inevitably approaches nobody sane would actually want to use anyway.
Here is the schedule https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/schedu...

Interesting talks e.g.

"Breaking NATO Radio Encryption"
Of course, but there is a difference between programing using sdk/library/api and some glue, and actually engineering some self standing solution, and everything in between that. I belive blind programer wouldn't fare well in fast churn ci/cd every minute startup, but would be amazing in embedded space with multi year release cycles.
Is university worth it? Yes, for both students and society
To recap:

>>> . . . worried that the internet will get less and less free as tactics like this become more common
>> On the other hand, where do you draw the line with regards to lawbreaking?
> Do electrons on a wire or photons on glass break laws?

I’ll restate the point: laws that address the means and not the behavior are ripe for abuse. That some exist doesn’t justify their expansion.
There are more questions that make sense than those that can be tested.

To the point, I have a convincing experience of consciousness and free will — qualia — and I suspect a digital clone of my brain would have a similar experience. Although this question is not testable, I think it's inaccurate to say that it doesn't make sense.
If you want to protect ticket sales, don't make the price of tickets astronomically high. Then, once at the stadium, make parking cheaper than $90. Make concessions affordable too. At that point, you'll have buts in seats at every game. Owner greed is why ticket sales even need this so called "protection"
Free reminder that the USGS is involved in an epic, nearly decade-long collection of mid- and high- density lidar of the entire continental USA, and the QC'd data (point cloud & derived) is published gratis for everyone to use:

https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/3d-elevation-program-fy25-...

https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program/3dep-spatial-metad...
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I had only positive experiences so far. A few well-written issues and even PR's, driven by fuzzers. Not bad.

I had much worse human reports and even CVE's, which were invalid and absolute trash.

And the recent trend to do sports reports generated by ChatGPT is insulting.
I would assume these decision tree PDF use a commonly available font. Layout and interpreted outcomes should be the same.
Good insured real estate is always a good safe bet. The best conservative investment that current & few past gens could have done while being completely clueless about stocks, markets, politics etc.

People need to live someplace to be just part of society and also to just survive, plus there is emotional and status aspect. Western construction is lagging behind population growth in popular places plus running / ran out of good space. Do the math.
There’s currently an enormous gulf in between modeling biology and AGI, to the point where it’s not even clear exactly where one should start. Lots of things should indeed be tried, but it’s not obvious what could lead to impact right now.
Operational PGP (2015)
Universities are definitely trying to use data science as a draw for students in the face of declining enrollment. I know one R1 employee who is taking it upon themselves to enable the training of tens of thousands of students over the years. People are more excited about AI than coding.
Why isn't all human knowledge in one big JSON file? Guidelines are decision trees, but they're not written to be applied by rote, because the identical patients with identical cancers posited in the hypothetical don't exist. The guidelines are not written for maverick clinician movie protagonists to navigate the decision tree in real time while racing against an oncological clock, they're for teams of clinicians who are very well trained and used to working with each other, and who have the skills to notice where the guidelines might be wrong or need expansion or modification. That is, they're abstractions of the state-of-the-art.

Now it'd be nice if these could be treated like source code on some sort of medical VCS, to be easily modded or even forked by sub-specialists. But wetware dependencies are way more complicated than silicon ones, and will remain harder to discretize for some time to come.

It's not that the author's aspirations misguided, they're great. But I believe progress in this area is most easily realized as part of a relevant team, because what looks conceptually simple from outside the system only seems that way because of a lack of resolution.
> International sports are similar

I'm not so sure. I can easily get access to all La Liga matches for waay less than ~$2,500, and the same goes for most non-American sports I care to watch sometimes. I was even surprised how easy it was to get HBO Max to watch every single Olympic event this year, think it cost 15-20 EUR in total or something. For reference, this is for a Spanish resident, so YMMV.
So, the nature of computing science should be to have fun. I like that idea, in theory... the problem is, "fun" rarely pushes one to do the really hard work needed for significant improvement, that isn't fun.

The hard sciences seem to lead to more real-world applications quicker. Software science only seems to advance when used by tech companies to sell ads. But there's not that many applications for software to perform that function, so there's not really that many material improvements.

They keep coming up with new ways to advertise (who'd have imagined an interactive navigation map that advertises burgers?). But the computer technology that controls the lives of the common man has not progressed much past the 90s. The hardware has gotten denser, sure, but the software has bloated at the same pace, without providing a significantly improved or different user experience. It's still just clicking windows and paging through media, with basically the same software working the same way, just re-written 20 times over.

These new forms of generative AI certainly have the capability to sort out information more efficiently, and skip a lot of the more manual programming required to provide features. But AI was never necessary to take a prompt and turn it into an action, as all the car nav systems in the world have shown for years. Yet for some reason I can't quite fathom, only cars have audible user interfaces? And we traded tactile interfaces for glass screens... because it's prettier?

I don't care about simplicity or complexity, any more than I care about how antibiotics are produced. I care that I can take a pill and get better.

Similarly, it would be great if it were just a little bit easier to do simple things, like check my bank statement, without worrying about "cyber threats", or jumping through hoops when the next password replacement fails, or having to upgrade my app for the 3rd time this week before I'm allowed to check the bank statement, or having to click through offers for yet another credit card, or navigate a complex tree of "features" that varies from app to app, and month to month. I just want to read my god damn statement.

I don't know if the philosophy of producing this technology will ever be resolved. But I've stopped caring. The state of computer science today is, I've given up hoping for something advanced. I'll settle for something that isn't painful.
Are you arguing that Walmart has some kind of outsized power in their capacity as an employer with only 1.6M employees (full and part time) in the US?
Great, let's do that. So how does consciousness work again, biologically?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piney_Pinecreek_Border_Airport
Well, supporters of state authority could argue that the contract was a prior one, the ‘social contract’. As it happens, I am a philosophical anarchist, so that doesn’t work for me, but most discussants here probably believe in political authority of some sort.
Does TFA stand for The Fucking Article? That's what I've always assumed but I've seen it used in cases where "fucking" would be strange and of course the the double the as is tradition with similar acronyms
Being able to physically mess around with something I’m passionate about, and learn and share info about it - without any of the overhead of actually storing the thing or the logistics behind it or whatever is something I actively seek out. Heck, legit museums charge entry for that.
My basic setup was vim/emacs (only as text editors) + grep/sed. It is totally doable and it is possible to be really productive but makes no sense when you have actually tried out adding some integrated tooling to your editor.
Nope, we are working on beefy machines. Problem are circular dependencies that trigger recompilation multiple times and macros sprinkle on top.

We’re refactoring it and get there eventually but without LSP and types (stack is dynamic) there is only so much that can be done.
One would reasonably assume threats could map surface-level objects from orbit. The Swiss (I hope) would consider this and react accordingly.
I live in Center City Philadelphia and we have many similar issues with public transit and transportation. I think it will be very interesting to see how the next few years play out both in NYC and here.

I'm all for adding additional support programs for those that need help(and pay taxes to support it) but that's never been popular or successful enough to make an impact. We need more housing, increases to the minimum wage, and many other changes to help support those in need after they immediately get help(which is still hard to come by). These are long term changes that can't get a "quick fix". Meanwhile faith in our public transit institutions continues to degrade as they are ill equipped or unwilling to help enforce order in a way that makes the majority feel safe.

Last year Philly elected a mayor who promised to restore order, potentially bring back stop and frisk and make changes in policing to make the city safe. I hope order and safety do return, but I feel many will be uncomfortable with the level of compassion given to get to that level of safety.
This was my response as well. The number of people hosting websites that large numbers of people visit is much smaller than people of this forum would like to admit. The vast majority of web users don't visit Joe's self-hosted blog, they view Joe's content on the various social platforms. It doesn't make sense for Joe to host his own site.
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What would a human without autonomy look like?
Datasets need to stop shipping with any training sets at all! And they should forbid anyone from using the test set to update the parameters of any model through their license.

We did this with ObjectNet (https://objectnet.dev/) years ago. It's only a test set, no training set provided at all. Back then it was very controversial and we were given a hard time for it initially. Now it's more accepted. Time to make this idea mainstream.

No more training sets. Everything should be out of domain.
Why would you consider averages prices more relevant than the Neukundenpreise?

If customers don't switch energy providers and are stuck with high prices why is this the EEGs fault?

Also the EEG is not equivalent to the cost of the net zero transition. We need to approach net zero (I am not convinced we need to get really to zero) and it will cost on the order of 100%-200% of GDP. Which isn't too much considering the time scale of roughly 30 years by which we want to achieve this.
Despite rising domestic demand, India's solar modules export will go up by 2030
A case specific PDF could be created and stored in the patient's electronic records. Such PDF could just highlight the decision three path.
From a computer science perspective, the stimuli from the other organs, the hormones, oxygen levels and so on would be the inputs, while the actions and thoughts would be the outputs.

It's like saying that we can't simulate a computer in a Turing machine because a Turing machine doesn't have a USB port to connect a mouse. Change the perspetive considering that the mouse movements are inputs and everything works. Same idea
Dream frontline engineering manager situation
>All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour.

So I'm not the only one. I never figured out why sometimes tabs open in an existing group, and sometimes in a new group. Curious to find the spec which explains the behavior...
For me part of this is a matter of context. The time when I was coding in a single language uninterrupted for months (I think I went a couple of years in one case) are long gone. Once you start context switching between languages, platforms and frameworks, things are very different.

Perhaps the easiest way to explain it might be CSS. If you work with CSS all the time, you retain and recall approaches to solving problems and, more than likely, have developed reusable code to copy-paste-modify. However, those of us who don't touch CSS full time always run into the dumbest of issues (centering and alignment come to mind).

For me modern autocompletion tools are like asking for a capability being loaded into the Matrix. This allows me to switch between just polar opposites as Javascript and Verilog and almost not miss a beat.

Given the right context, I would not fault anyone for relying on these tools. Solving problems computationally isn't about remembering ridiculous syntactical differences between languages but rather about data structures, algorithms, performance and process. If you have a solid background in CS and experience developing software, not remembering the differences between C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, JS, etc., etc., etc. isn't that important.

One caveat: There are domains where you need to have a certain level of expertise without assistive tools. One example of this is mission critical real time systems. Than again, this isn't about remembering syntax and more so about being able to write performant code that is safe.
On Hackerone you can get money for a bug report, could that be the reason? I think that the first sentence in report is probably written by a human and the rest by AI. The report is unnecessary wordy, has typical AI formatting and several paragraphs with detailed explanation of "you are absolutely right" are signs of a LLM.
The current political configuration of the Iberian Peninsula comprises the bulk of Portugal and Spain, the whole landlocked microstate of Andorra, a small part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales (French Cerdagne), and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula#Political_di...